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The Movie of My Life

2017 · 113 min

A wistful, unhurried coming-of-age story steeped in cinema and poetry, quietly aching with paternal absence and small-town longing.

Directed by
Selton Mello
Genres
Drama
Starring
Johnny Massaro, Vincent Cassel, Bruna Linzmeyer
Tagline
I arrived and he left. The rest, I can't tell.
Overview
The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had left for good, back to France. Tony then looks for the company of his fathers friends in search of information and references of a lost male role-model. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his fathers' whereabouts and reasons for leaving.

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Directed by
Selton Mello
Genres
Drama
Starring
Johnny Massaro, Vincent Cassel, Bruna Linzmeyer
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • identity
  • coming-of-age
  • isolation
  • memory
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
  • school
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Selton Mello
Written by
Marcelo Vindicato, Selton Mello
Starring
Johnny Massaro, Vincent Cassel, Bruna Linzmeyer, Selton Mello, Ondina Clais, Bia Arantes, Rolando Boldrin, João Pedro Prates
Music
Plínio Profeta
Cinematography
Walter Carvalho
Runtime
113 min
Country
Brazil
Languages
Portuguese

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